I am a free woman. I was also a happy woman - what could be rarer in the world? She was one of the most well-known journalists in France, an intellectual - and a passionate lover. In her early forties, Françoise Giroud experiences the end of her great love when Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber leaves her in 1960. Together, they founded and led the news magazine "L'Express." Everything she had lived for, fought for, and worked for is lost in an instant. She survives a suicide attempt and writes this impressive, long-lost confession of a strong woman in the months that follow, providing insight into the media, politics, and society of those years.